Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore

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Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.

Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers? Everything is within the rock pools, where you can look beyond your own reflection and find the miraculous an inch beneath your nose. I loved it. In The Sea Is Not Made of Water, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers―no one can escape the pull of the sea. For Nicolson, who writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (The American Scholar), the world of the rockpools is infinite and as intricate as our own. LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 Paperback, Feb 21st 2023

The physics of the seas, the biology of anemone and limpet, the long history of the earth, and the stories we tell of those who have lived here: all interconnect in this zone where the philosopher, scientist and poet can meet and find meaning.

• Publication Date: 04/08/2022
• Author: Nicolson, Adam
• Format: Paperback
• Dimensions: 198x129mm
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Pages: 384